🔥5 New Unicorns Join The Board And 5 Exit in October
Five new unicorns joined Crunchbase’s Unicorn Board in October, spanning sectors like AI, energy, fintech, and robotics. Notable companies include AI coding platform Poolside and energy startup Pacific Fusion, with a collective valuation exceeding $7 billion. Meanwhile, five companies exited the board, contributing to the overall growth, driven by major funding rounds, including OpenAI's $6.6 billion raise.
🔥5 New Unicorns Join The Board And 5 Exit in October
Five new unicorns joined Crunchbase’s Unicorn Board in October, spanning sectors like AI, energy, fintech, and robotics. Notable companies include AI coding platform Poolside and energy startup Pacific Fusion, with a collective valuation exceeding $7 billion. Meanwhile, five companies exited the board, contributing to the overall growth, driven by major funding rounds, including OpenAI's $6.6 billion raise.
This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. The gold standard of encryption, known as end-to-end encryption, where only the sender and person who receives the message are able to see it, is available on Telegram only when the Secret Chat function is enabled. Voice and video calls are also completely encrypted. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. "He has to start being more proactive and to find a real solution to this situation, not stay in standby without interfering. It's a very irresponsible position from the owner of Telegram," she said.
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